http://blogs.educationau.edu.au/ksmith/2008/07/11/should-july-9-be-australia-day/ communicate and collaborate in an online world Sun, 23 Nov 2008 20:47:23 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.0.4 http://blogs.educationau.edu.au/ksmith/2008/07/11/should-july-9-be-australia-day/#comment-90674 Wed, 16 Jul 2008 17:36:33 +0000 http://blogs.educationau.edu.au/ksmith/2008/07/11/should-july-9-be-australia-day/#comment-90674 As a high school history teacher with a view to the future, I believe our new Australia Day should be the day we become a republic, not an anachronistic date from the past but a lasting sign of our nation's emerging maturity. As an ad once said, "It won't happen overnight, but it will happen". Certainly our national day should NOT be the divisive current date and leave ANZAC Day as it is, enough meaning there already. As a high school history teacher with a view to the future, I believe our new Australia Day should be the day we become a republic, not an anachronistic date from the past but a lasting sign of our nation’s emerging maturity. As an ad once said, “It won’t happen overnight, but it will happen”.
Certainly our national day should NOT be the divisive current date and leave ANZAC Day as it is, enough meaning there already.

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